Over the years the daily emails from Indian spam SEO companies has been like Chinese water torture. I have obtained a list of Indian IP addresses which I have added to my .htaccess file to block them from seeing my site. I know this is not foolproof but hopefully it will block most of the emails.
I have tried testing this through an Indian proxy but they are either down or based in the US. I was wondering if someone in India (or someone with access to an Indian-based proxy) could visit my home page and tell me if they can access it or not.
This might seem extreme but I only publish my email on one page and there is a clear message saying no emails about partnerships, link exchanges, SEO, etc. They just don’t read it; they scrape emails and spam indiscriminately.
With all of the commercially available hosting/ server sites. If you ask me you are wasting your time with the .htaccess file approach. I personally I would integrate http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ to keep up to date with scrapers and harvesters and then create filters for my email system followed up by replacing my text email address with an image based email address. (there are also open source projects to help with securing the image);
even adding a captcha before the modal is displayed with your email address would help a lot
I sympathise with the problem. Unfortunately, blocking people with disabilities isn’t very bright, either, especially in countries which have anti-discrimination laws and require equal access to services.
Are you saying there are no blind/partially sighted people in business? In any case, my point applies regardless of the business involved.
I appreciate your effort to help. I was only concerned by the accessibility issue, which shouldn’t be ignored.
who said block them? there are many other forms of contact on the page did you look at the site?
I see your point to a certain extent, but to pick that “one” thing to complain about in this context makes me feel like you werent involved in the conversation and just posting a reply based on your quick overview of the thread. I don’t know who you work for but I program in multiple languages for probably one of the most recognized business/orginazations through out us and canada, and their code is…
lets just say not totatlly up to par, either way, from my experience in “real world” programming (not text book programming) you run into special cases all of the time, in almost every special case you have to sacrifice something to gain something. Its a rule of life and it is lifes major malfunction();
